Our research
We research across a range of linguistic areas
Learn about our researchExploring the organisation of human interaction
Over the last 50 years, conversation analysts have generated new knowledge on the ways that people use language, gesture and gaze to regulate their interactions.
Conversation analysis research has been influential in the study of language, cognition and social organisation. It has also generated the field of interactional linguistics.
The interactional systems described by conversation analysts are an important form of infrastructure for human social life.
Areas of interest
We are interested in the following areas of research:
- Australian languages
- communication disability
- grammar and social action
- multimodality in interaction
- repair organisation
- turn-taking organisation.
Our people
Meet some of the academics and students involved in this research.
Collaborators
- Dr Steven Bloch (University College London)
- Professor Niels Buus (Monash University)
- Dr Jie Chen (Shandong University)
- Professor Nick Enfield (University of Sydney)
- Associate Professor Rod Gardner (University of Queensland)
- Dr Fakry Hamdani (UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung)
- Dr Shimako Iwasaki (Monash University)
- Associate Professor Ilana Mushin (University of Queensland)
- Dr Benjamin Ong (Monash University)
- Dr Daniela Panico (Santa Sabina College)
- Dr Francesco Possemato (University of Groningen)
- Professor Lesley Stirling (University of Melbourne)
- Dr Sarah White (UNSW)
Research students
Our current research students are:
- Eman Alharbi (MRes)
- Caroline de Dear
- PhD thesis title: A multimodal perspective on questions and answers in Gija conversation
- Supervisors: Dr Joe Blythe and Dr Scott Barnes
- ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7418-504X
- Ashleigh Jones
- PhD thesis title: Simultaneous production as an interactional phenomenon in cross-modal bilingual conversation
- Rona Pillay
- PhD thesis title: Patient transfers in the operating theatre
- Natalie Skinner
- PhD thesis title: Cultural and linguistic diversity in children with complex communication needs
- Hui Tao
- PhD thesis title: Interpreter mediated interactions in health care
- Jingyi Yang
- MRes thesis title: Reference to co-present participants in Mandarin conversation
Alumni
- Dr Jie Chen (Shandong University)
- Dr Josua Dahmen (Australian National University and Macquarie University)
- Dr Fakry Hamdani (UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung)
- Alice Kneipp (Macquarie University)